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<div align="center"><font size=4><b><u>STS Brown Bag Lunch Talk<br><br>
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</u></font><font size=6 color="#0000FF">"Dams and the Technological
Imaginary: <br>
Lessons from the Krishna Valley in India"<br><br>
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</font><font size=6>Roopali Phadke</font><font size=5> <br>
Postdoctoral Fellow, Kennedy School of Government<br><br>
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Thursday, April 28, 2005<br><br>
12:00 noon, MIT, E51-191<br><br>
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<u>Abstract<br>
</u></b>Among environmental movements in India, activists from the
Krishna Valley have taken a distinctive approach toward promoting the
participatory<br>
development of water resources. In chronicling the evolution of the
Krishna Valley movement, this presentation focuses on how political
activists and<br>
NGO-engineers have shaped a new model for large dam development. Through
both political protests and the articulation of technical
alternatives,<br>
these activists are promoting a vision for sustainable agriculture that
reclaims dams as "technologies of trust," signifying that it is
possible to<br>
build large scale water infrastructure that challenges drought without
sacrificing human rights or ecological integrity.<br><br>
Please join us this Thursday at noon. Feel free to bring you
lunch. Coffee and dessert will be provided.<br><br>
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Debbie Meinbresse<br>
STS Program, MIT<br>
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